The X Factor

When I went to sit down to write this blog, I found my thoughts straying away completely from the usual cookie-cutter review of songs I normally find myself writing, but instead, how the music I listen to makes me feel, […]

Warning: This playlist contains songs with explicit content. With older, tangible forms of music only finding worth within the hipster crowd and being clung onto desperately by Generation X, the art of creating someone a well thought-out mixed CD or […]

The needle drops on the vinyl and falls into the first groove of 12 others, a faint crackle is heard right before the sound of a rhythmic tambourine counts off the first measure of an album that is seemingly my […]

It’s 2010 again and you can hear 10 year old Xenna Smith singing loudly into her make-shift hairbrush “microphone” while her parents aren’t home. You see her furiously head-banging to the music and pretending she is her idol, lead singer […]

As the year has gone on I’ve developed the routine of creating a radio-esc music sampler called the GF Wave; it combines a couple of my passions, editing & music. I’m currently in my 7th GF Wave of the […]

This week I wanted to write about a band that’s recently captured my admiration, but is considered relatively underground. On June 11, 2015, I saw Cruisr at the Orange Peel opening for the band Bleachers and despite just being the […]